YouTube Music is testing AI hosts that will interrupt your tunes

arstechnica.com

28 points·jimt1234··8 comments

> We've been on the hunt for this AI host since opting into the test several hours ago, but the robot has yet to appear.

An entire article about a beta feature they haven’t even seen? I normally wouldn’t read Ars but I’m on flight with nothing else to do and still feel swindled

We gave up Winamp for this.

It really whips the LLM's ass.

Some of us never did. Well, it's XMMs in my case, but that's besides the point. A complete music library with stuff that I actually like only takes a very part of my storage. It's even possible to carry everything on my phone these days.

I keep hearing horror stories about online music platforms, from disappearing content, to AI slop and I'm so glad I never jumped on that.

Finally, I can have my beats interrupted by an AI DJ emulation

I definitely don't want to be randomly interrupted by Ai garbage.

Those horrible automatic translations are bad enough.

And it seems the slop can't be completely disabled. I guess sooner or later it will spew out"usefull recommendations" and end up being just another vehicle for ads.

It will be shit like "did you know that the singer of band {xyz} likes this brand of {snake oil}?" or "the song you are listening to reminds me of {insert crypto scam}".

It seems soon antoher browser plug-in is required to get rid of yet antoher annoying anti-feature.

Didn't Spotify do this at one point?

https://newsroom.spotify.com/2023-02-22/spotify-debuts-a-new...

Yea. It's pretty mid.

It basically just switches between 10 5-song playlists that it knows you'll like. Nothing AI about it other than the AI voice that occasionally says "mixing it up now..."

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